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App orders quietly stack delivery, service fees and inflated menu prices: the same order collected direct from the shop often runs 20-25% less before any cooking happens. The fakeaway movement exists because the classics are easy: a curry, fried rice or pizza at home is GBP 2-3 a head. Nobody quits takeaways via spreadsheet: halving the frequency and keeping Friday sacred is the version that survives.
What The Takeaway Vs Cooking Calculator Works Out
- Takeaway habit per year: orders a month multiplied by the average order and by 12. A weekly family order at the app era's GBP 25 to GBP 35 average compounds to GBP 1,300 to GBP 1,700 a year.
- Cooking the same meals: the annual takeaway bill minus the cost of cooking the same meals at home. The curry, the fried rice and the pizza all run GBP 2 to GBP 3 a head, a quarter to a fifth of the delivered version.
- The realistic middle: the saving from halving the habit. Nobody quits takeaways via spreadsheet; keeping Friday sacred and cooking the rest is the version that survives.
- Delivery and service fees (advanced): the per-order fees apps add on top of the menu price, included in the true cost of each order. Platform fees and inflated menu prices stack 20% to 40% over the counter price.
- Collecting instead of the app (advanced): the annual saving from ordering direct from the shop and collecting, at the percentage you enter, while keeping every takeaway. Collection over delivery is the single biggest lever.
- Takeaways you would keep (advanced): set your own frequency rather than the automatic half, and see the saving from cooking the rest.
- Per head (advanced): the order and the home-cooked meal divided by the people fed, the fairest like-for-like comparison. A family order that stretches to tomorrow's lunch halves in effective price.
- Saving after valuing your time (advanced): the hours spent cooking the replaced meals, priced at whatever you value an hour at, deducted from the saving. Batch-cooked bases in the freezer turn a Tuesday craving into a ten-minute assembly that outpaces the delivery rider.